Costin Cazaban
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Costin Cazaban (born September 9th, 1946 in Bucharest; died February 20th, 2009 in Paris ), was a Romanian/French composer, musicologist and university professor.
Life
Costin Cazaban was the son of the actors Jules Cazaban and Irina Nădejde. He graduated from the National Conservatory of Music in Bucharest, and later became a musical critic and composer of spectral music. He taught harmony and writing at the George Enescu Conservatory in Bucharest (1971-1983), was a DAAD scholar (1974-75, Germany), participated in the summer courses at Darmstadt (1982-1983), and won the 1st and 2nd prizes at the ICONS composition competitions (Turin, 1987). In 1983 he settled in Paris. Doctor of the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University, with the thesis "Temps musical / Espace musical comme functions logiques" (1994), in which he elaborates a system of composition and musical analysis based on the logic of Stefan Lupașcu. He taught at the Universities Paris I, Paris III and Paris IV and Lyon II. His compositions have been performed in France, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Netherlands, Germany and Romania. He regularly attended conferences and specialised congresses. He was a member of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET) and SACEM (since 1981), and published over 3,000 studies and articles in musicology and music criticism in "Le Monde", "Le Monde de la Musique", "La Revue Musicale", "Silence" as well as being a correspondent for Radio France International. Costin Cazaban was married to violinist Diana Cazaban (Josan born) and is the great-grandfather of religious historian Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban .
On October 28, 2017, the Memory and Hope association commemorated Costin Cazaban in the halls of the Union of Composers in Bucharest, in the presence of numerous musicologists and critics.
Compositions
- Music for Saint-John Perse (1972),
- Reflection in my Hidden Face (1973),
- Zig-zag (1974),
- Naturalia I (1975),
- Antimemoria (1977),
- Still Life with Instruments and Composers (1978),
- Naturalia II (1980),
- Wanted Crossings, Choral and Escape (1980),
- Notorious (1981),
- Variations-entertainment for solo violin (1981),
- Ras-Timp (1982),
- Treillis (1985),
- Vacuum flutes (1986),
- The Aleph (1986),
- Shadow of Euclid (1987),
- Deus ex machina (1988),
- Beyond Vienna (1989),
- Pneuma-Vorstellung (1990),
- Solve and coagula (1992),
- Sonata (1995),
- ... minimum continents ... (1997),
- Alcyon (1998),
- Dedalus (1999),
- Three small studies for piano (2000),
- Aletheia (2001),
- Flying (2003),
- Calam (2004),
- Pax vobiscum - in memoriam Jean-Paul II (2005),
- Hossana (2008).
Books and articles
- The quartets of Beethoven (1985),
- The trails that cross: Luigi Nono (1987),
- The Future of the Past: Albab Berg (1992),
- Musical time: musical space as logical functions (1992),
- Musical time and space time (1994 & 1995),
- Michaël Levinas or The Quest for the Imaginary Concrete (1998),
- Musical Meaning and Tautology (1998),
- The Time of Immanence against the Space of Transcendence (1998),
- Time, Space and Musical Meaning (1998),
- Between immanence and intentionality. Musical time and listening time (1999),
- Musical time / musical space as logical functions (2000),
- Anatol Vieru: algebraic formalization and aesthetic issues (2006),
- Husserl and the electroacoustic melody (2007),
- Noise and materials at the end of the last century (2008).
Text adapted from the Romanian Wikipedia.